locale and font alias

[T <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi

My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default
locale to English?

As the side effect, the fixed font is of iso8859-15:

 $ grep ^fix /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
 fixed  -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15

Having removed all xfonts-*-transcoded fonts, my X won't start any more:

 Fatal server error:
 could not open default font 'fixed';

How can I fix that? 

Note, remove and re-install xfonts-base didn't help. 

Please help. 

thanks